One last late night rant from Atlanta (Do I need to rename these vids Rantlanta? Okay maybe not) before I board the plane back to NYC.
It’ll be several months before I can consume this much sugar and HFCS again.
Archive for the ‘Fanboy Ish’ Category
DP’s Legendary Toybox…
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
I’ve been fuxing with the Marvel Legends action figure series since the mid-2000s. At one point I was copping every figure in the series but that became too consuming to maintain so I sold off all the figures except for the ones related to Iron Man.
Hasbro toys, which has been making the figures for several years suspended the 1/6th series to develop the smaller 3.75″ Marvel Universe series. I copped a bunch of the Marvel Universe joints just because I’m an addict like that, but I never responded well to the smaller scale superhero figures. Listen, I go back to the days of the 8″ MEGO figures so even tho’ the details of the dolls was more glorious the smaller scale left me wanting more.
The good news I found out during my Wal-Mart visits while in Atlanta was that Hasbro started up the ‘Legends’ line again. I prA’li would have known this had I gone to NY’s ComiCON past year. Missing that event was a fanboy fail. Here’s what the first wave of Hasbro’s reinvigorated Marvel Legends line looks like…
Thor, Captain America (as Steve Rogers) and Iron Man fill out a nice little Avengers lineup just in time for the summer motion picture blockbuster. I doubt I’ll be copping anything other than the Iron Man Extremis armor figures since the new pricepoint for the figures is up to $16 apiece.
I’ve already picked up two(2) Iron Man figures in the stealth blue armor.
The traditional red and golden armor must be the ‘chase’ (variant) figure. None of the Wal-Marts I’ve visited have had them in stock. The collectors go after the ‘chase’ figures hardbody, hence the name. I’m gonna hit up a few more Wal-Marts before I leave Atlanta to see if I can comeup on the OG Iron Man armor color.
I didn’t have the Mark V stealth armor figure that dropped when the Marvel Legends series first debuted. I’ve seen that figure being sold for upwards of $200 at some comic shops but thankfully the price is down to something more reasonable. What’s also good that I don’t copp these figures as investment items. I buy these Iron Man joints to make music videos for Ghostface Killah songs I like.
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Monday, March 19th, 2012
Get in where you fit in sneaker fiends. Foot Locker’s ‘Locker Mania‘ is down to their Great 8. Pick the final four swag of summer sneakers and you could possibly catch the hook up for the next year.
Can the Foamposite topple the Kobe VII? Will the Air Jordan Retro XII knock off the Jordan ‘Son Of Mars’? The surprising cross training dark horse, the Nike Diamond Turf II faces off against the Nike Hyperdunk and in the final shoe-perstar matchup the Kevin Durant Nike KD IV goes toe to toe with the LeBron James Nike LeBron 9.
Click the link and get in the fun now. It’s gonna be a SHOE-T OUT.
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Reebok’s homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat isn’t just honorable, it’s evolutionary. Basquiat’s influence within the pop culture art scene is part of the Hip-Hop godhead. Basquiat is the voice of the disenfranchised and eternally creative. There is no definition for this spirit and the only word we can find to be a synonym is FREEDOM.
Thanks to Reebok for blessing me and the Combat Jack Show staff with these kicks. #Respect
Action Bronson: Expensive Pens…
Friday, March 16th, 2012
This track is the beast from the ‘Blue Chips’ project. Meyhem Lauren complements Action Bronson as if Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger teamed up for a bloodbath massacre, but this is rap music so no one actually gets killed. I don’t think…
‘Blue Chips‘ is totally free so I don’t know what your excuse is for not Dl’ng this project.